What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Installed the Matt Gecko led bed lights today after I removed the topper and washed the bed out. I’ll get a pic after it gets dark out.

 

Do it!

 

You know the saying “Once you go rack, you never go back!”

 

Added a 20” LED light bar to the bull bar that came on my truck

Used the Tacoma Beast illumination harness and factory sized switch

and for the back end a matching Go Rhino bumper step

 

Truck looks great!!
Found them here on the BST area

 

A wife that doesn't support your Tacoma-Accessory purchases? Time for a divorce!

 

I installed the OEM grill and I’m not sure if I love the look …

 

Setup my dash for our road trip. iPad is new so had to get it figured out..

 

@Rikdur

You need a "Skewp"!

LOLOLOL

I'm joking. Yes, it does take some getting use to...but it didn't take long for me to like it.

 

Added taco vinyl gradient decals. Goes really well with the lime and the red PRO accents!

 

Added some cab lights to the victory rack. I think I like it! it’s different. Never hooked up the raptor lights in the grill, never liked them, just the grill. Need to black those out still.

 

Damn that sucks, sorry man, terrible feeling, ugh...

 

blue lights puts me to sleep… it’s an occupational hazard

 

Love that color on truck !!!

 

Be careful with that rear one. It makes bending your frame after being rear ended much easier. Ask me how I know……

 

Ripped couple of fingernail beds and cuticles. Took my time. Worth it!

my personal tip before install…Make sure fingers aren’t dry. Moisturize them…lick it before you start sticking’ it.

 

I have a dome light again! I’ve been driving without the upper panel for quite a while, so it’s all back in. That may not sound like much, but it has a lot going in it. I tied the ground from my footwell lights to the map lights, so they come on anytime the map lights are on. Be it the door, the key fob, the dome light switch, or manually pressing the map light, the footwell light on that side follows. Hard to get a good action shot, but here I am pressing the map light, so you can see it light up my hand:

And now I have my switches as well. I need to tone down that blue, but I did build a separate dimmer into it for just those four as I knew that CH4X4 blue was going to be bright.

 

Feel like sharing how to do the install and where get that knob ?

 

The install is nothing. Turn the chrome ring on the boot clockwise 1/4 turn and push down. CCW turn the shift knob off.

Buy a grommet from Home Depot: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-3-4-in-Neoprene-Grommet-812048/204275920

cut off one lip of the grommet and tuck it down into the chrome ring. Push the ring down the stick as far as it will go, keeping pressure on the grommet so it will stay in the chrome ring.

thread on the TRD nut all the way, then the knob until it stops. Once it stops, unthread it until the pattern is straight with the dash and then spin the nut up until it locks into the knob. Tighten with an open end wrench.

As for getting the knob, it’s part number PTR26-35070-03 but you have to provide a VIN for a special edition FJ for them to ship it to you. I don’t have the one I used on hand, you’ll have to searched used car sites to find a VIN.